New Shun 1730

Hope?

Hope for nothing.

Liu Yu thought, the Celestial Empire you are looking forward to is the Celestial Empire that only has the power but no obligation to be a tributary state.

You absolutely don't want the Celestial Empire today.

As long as the country's handicraft industry has advantages, no country will encourage pirates under the conditions of its own handicraft and industrial advantages.

Dashun is far from "free trade".

But Dashun's own handicraft and export advantages make Dashun hate pirates. Liu Yu never encouraged "privateers" and the like. Seeing that Europeans engaged in privateering, he followed suit, that is, looking for a sword on a boat and waiting for a rabbit by a tree.

The British encouraged privateers because of the trade between the Spanish colonies and Spain; France encouraged privateers because of the trade between Britain and the North American colonies.

Is Dashun crazy? Dashun is the largest source of goods and exporter. To encourage privateers and hinder its own exports?

Don't say that privateers rob foreign ships and not domestic ships, which is idealistic nonsense that only exists in fantasy worlds.

Let alone whether you know whether they robbed or not when you can't see them, just say that whether they robbed British ships or Dutch ships, the goods on the ships were either silk or porcelain, and they were sold to European merchants after the robbery. What benefit would this bring to Dashun's exports?

Sulu submitted a petition a few years ago, hoping to become a tributary state like Korea, and its purpose was also to find a big backer.

Dashun is now going to Southeast Asia, and it neither engages in slave trade nor likes pirates at all... If it really succeeds, Southeast Asia will be Dashun's inland sea. Who would encourage pirates in their own inland sea?

As for Dashun's dislike of slave trade, it is because Dashun has plenty of "surplus" population. Wouldn't slaves take away the jobs of Dashun's "surplus" population?

North America can engage in slave trade because there is a lack of labor locally; Ceylon can engage in slave trade because the Sinhalese have the national awakening caused by the cohesion of Buddhism and the historical inertia of the country for two thousand years, and they need Tamils.

Why does Dashun engage in slave trade in Southeast Asia?

Does Dashun lack cheap labor?

In the year of disaster, selling children and daughters for ten taels of silver. A good black slave from North America costs 40 pounds, 120 taels of silver. Dashun’s labor is much cheaper than black slaves. Isn’t it crazy to engage in slave trade?

Sulu’s land is barren, and now it relies on the "location advantage" to make a living by engaging in slave trade and "Eastern Barbary Pirates". So much so that the Portuguese gave these people a very Algiers name "Moros", which is consistent with the etymology of the Moors who are famous for pirates and slave trade in North Africa.

Liu Yu was the first to disbelieve that Sulu could support Dashun’s voyage to Southeast Asia.

Apart from anything else, one of the first things Dashun had to do after going to Southeast Asia was to wipe out the "Southeast Asian Barbary Pirates" and destroy their nests together.

This Sulu was still a Southeast Asian country that could write a set of standard words in the tribute letter: "There is no strong wind and rain in the sky, no waves in the sea, and I know that there must be a saint in China..."

The attitude of other countries towards Dashun can be imagined-if they knew the policies that Dashun was going to implement.

Today's "show battle" against Malacca is crucial. At least in the early stage, Dashun can gain a firm foothold, and when Dashun strikes hard in the later stage, all countries can have some idea in mind.

In Liu Yu's opinion, Dashun cannot achieve the transformation of the land into the flow in a short time in the vast Nanyang. Let alone Nanyang, it is better to first make the Southwest and Sichuan-Tibet regions clear, which is better than anything else. How can there be so much energy to do it here?

But on the one hand, Dashun destroyed the trade system created by Portugal and the Netherlands; on the other hand, it is absolutely opposed to piracy and slave trade, which makes Dashun bear heavier ruling pressure than the Netherlands and Portugal, and also requires more advanced ruling skills.

At this time, because the indestructible Fort Santiago in the eyes of these small countries in Nanyang was forced to marry by Dashun with almost no damage tactics, all kinds of praises produced were only slightly useful to Liu Yu.

Taking advantage of the words of the Sulu envoy, Liu Yu bowed to the north and said: "The Holy Emperor knew that you all longed for the king's rule. That's why he built ships for ten years, trained soldiers for ten years, and went to Southeast Asia for twenty years."

"Why? Isn't it to drive away the Westerners?"

"The Celestial Empire has great military power, but it does not use force to oppress others. Mencius said: Those who conquer others by force are not convinced by their hearts, because their strength is insufficient. Those who conquer others by virtue are sincerely convinced by their hearts, just like the seventy disciples who were convinced by Confucius."

"Now facing you, I can also say that the Celestial Empire must be different from the Portuguese. Forced conversion, the Dutch are greedy. "

After saying that, he pointed to the Dashun flag flying on the ruined Fort Santiago in the distance and said: "You have seen one tenth or one twelve of the military power of the Celestial Empire. With this strong army, who can stop us from conquering the east and the west? It's just that the Celestial Empire is tolerant of tributary states. "

"The ancients said that the king does not rule the barbarians, and does not refuse those who come, and does not chase those who leave. Whether you pay tribute or not, the same attitude applies. "

"Do not refuse those who come, and do not chase those who leave."

Although it sounds like it makes sense.

The so-called "do not refuse those who come, and do not chase those who leave" is also the so-called "do not take the initiative, do not refuse".

If you are willing to pay tribute, you pay; if you are not willing to pay tribute, you do not pay, you can come or not.

But this depends on the time.

When the Song Dynasty was weak, it sounded very self-consoling to say this.

But now, Fort Santiago has just been blown up, thousands of marines are gathering here, and the sea is still floating with the largest fleet that these small country envoys have ever seen since they were born.

Whether to pay tribute or not, they say that those who come are not rejected and those who leave are not pursued, but who dares not to pay tribute?

Southeast Asia is different from India. These small countries are not unfamiliar with paying tribute. This thing is like raising a child. Even if it has been a long time, you can raise another one easily.

The tribute paid by the Southeast Asian countries to the Celestial Empire is not the same as the tribute paid by Korea to the Celestial Empire.

Korea paid tribute to the Celestial Empire for important trade interests. The silk and porcelain sold to Japan every year were bought during the tribute.

The distorted and modified Confucian caste system with Korean characteristics has made Korea completely control foreign trade. Private individuals cannot trade. The Lee family controls the monopoly of foreign trade. The transit trade between China, Korea and Japan can be said to be the money bag of the Korean royal family and the two-class nobles.

The tribute paid by the Southeast Asian countries to the Celestial Empire has little to do with trade.

Chinese merchants travel everywhere, and Chinese can contract taxes and mines in various countries. Chinese merchants can leave a reputation in Southeast Asia as "Tang people are treacherous and untrustworthy" as in Mongolia. How can there be any demand for official monopoly trade?

Now Liu Yu mentioned the matter of tribute by taking advantage of the collapsed Fort Santiago, which was much easier than "sending ten elephants to pretend that the two countries were equal" in Ceylon.

The envoys of Sulu took the lead, and the others glanced at the collapsed Fort Santiago and said that they would send a tribute mission to the capital in a few days.

Even if their country is poor and barren, they still have to offer tribute to the emperor.

Liu Yu bowed to the north again and said: "The Celestial Empire is vast and rich in resources, and has everything; the Holy Emperor is benevolent and does not care about profit, not money and goods."

"In the past, Chu used broom as tribute, and the Emperor would not despise the low price of broom? Even if you are not poor and barren, do you think the Holy Emperor would ask you to contribute a lot of money and goods?"

"In order to prevent the tribute of silver, the Kingdom of Korea closed its silver mines and said that the Kingdom of Korea was poor and did not produce gold and silver, so as to avoid the contribution. This is really judging the heart of a villain by the heart of a gentleman."

Although this is a very "formal" talk, in fact, if there are masters in these small countries, they can hear the meaning of Liu Yu's words.

In the feudal tribute system, whether the suzerain state considers economic interests or not is not mentioned first. But if economic interests are considered, the symbol is "tribute", which is a very feudal feature.

But Dashun actually tried to take a different route from the previous one in its rule over Nanyang and tried a new type of tribute relationship.

Relying on the little contribution of feudal obligations is really too outdated in this era.

Dashun is also trying, giving Liu Yu a lot of autonomy.

The economy of Southeast Asia has long been completely distorted into colonization.

After Dashun occupied Nanyang, it was necessary to transform Nanyang according to Dashun's needs, and many things would be different from before.

But the overall idea is very similar to that of the Portuguese and Dutch eras.

Become part of the trade system.

It's nothing more than spices in the Portuguese and Dutch eras.

In the Dashun era, spices, cotton, indigo, and becoming a dumping ground for Dashun's handicrafts.

Liu Yu said this, hoping that these small countries in Nanyang would put aside their concerns. Dashun is not very willing to get along with the Nanyang countries in the patriarchal relationship of feudal obligations, because Dashun is still sober-minded. It's better to focus on North Korea and northern Vietnam.

These small countries in Nanyang don't have to worry, Dashun treats them with a complete feudal patriarchal relationship, making them like vassal states.

Although, in fact, it is.

However, Liu Yu did not care about the formalism of the upper class. What was more important was to impact their original social structure and disintegrate the economic foundation of each country.

Tribute is just a formality.

The real thing is still in the economy.

But tribute is very important to Dashun.

Liu Yu did not care. He felt that now was neither the era of royal monopoly, nor the era of exclusive monopoly, nor the era of Zheng He's voyages to the West. Tribute was really just a formality.

However, the emperor must like the feeling of "all nations coming to pay tribute".

Southeast Asia was broken into pieces. Not to mention all nations coming to pay tribute, it would not be a big problem to gather dozens of nations.

The ministers in the court did not understand the economic problems of Southeast Asia very well. Although Liu Yu's achievement was not to make all nations pay tribute, these ministers did not understand deeper things. Therefore, tribute, which had completely become a formality in Southeast Asia, was very important to Dashun.

Liu Yu's last words also made the envoys of many small countries feel relieved.

Just as the tribute sent by the Sulu Kingdom shows that they understand China very well, many small countries in Southeast Asia are very clear about the tribute system.

They don't know the new methods and policies of the Dashun. In view of past experience, Liu Yu said that the court does not value the value of the tribute at all, so there is nothing to worry about.

Just take something and go there, that's it. In return, it is the protection of the Celestial Empire and the continuation of the orthodoxy of the dynasty. Isn't it a big profit?